Decree No. 98/2002/ND-CP dated November 27, 2002 of the Government amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulation on custody and detention issued together with the Government's Decree No. 89/1998/ND-CP dated November 7, 1998

THE GOVERNMENT -------	SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ------------
No: 98/2002/ND-CP	Hanoi, November 27, 2002

DECREE

AMENDING AND SUPPLEMENTING A NUMBER OF ARTICLES OF THE REGULATION ON CUSTODY AND DETENTION ISSUED TOGETHER WITH THE GOVERNMENT�S DECREE No. 89/1998/ND-CP OF NOVEMBER 7, 1998

THE GOVERNMENT

Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;

Pursuant to the Criminal Procedure Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam;

At the proposals of the Minister of Public Security, the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Justice,

DECREES:

Article 1.-To amend and supplement a number of articles of the Regulation on custody and detention, issued together with the Governments Decree No. 89/1998/ND-CP of November 7, 1998 (herein after referred to as the Regulation for short) as follows:

1. To amend and supplement Clause 1, Article 6 of the Regulation as follows:

"1. The police agency of each district, the Military Command of each province or centrally-run city and equivalent levels may organize a custody house. Such a custody house shall have a number of detention rooms posted up with the signboard "Detention Room." For custody houses regularly occupied by 30 or more persons temporarily kept in custody and/or detained, additional rooms can be arranged for managing prisoners who serve the cooking and bringing of meals, carrying of presents and daily-life essentials, do the cleaning and repair of detention houses, and serve custody and detention requirements, which must be posted up with the signboard "Prisoners-Managing Room."

The Minister of Public Security and the Minister of Defense shall decide concretely which custody houses will have prisoners-managing rooms and prescribe the maximum number of and criteria for prisoners to be kept at these rooms. The control, education and other regimes related to prisoners to be kept at custody houses shall comply with the law provisions on the enforcement of imprisonment sentences. Border-guard stations which are located at the border or in islands far from district-level administrative centers may establish custody rooms which must be posted with up the signboard "Custody Room."